OSI/FTAM Configuration and Management Manual

FTAM Management Environment

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Using TRACE and PTrace With Tandem FTAM

You can use the combination of the SCF TRACE command and the PTrace utility to

trace Tandem FTAM activity. This subsection discusses how to use SCF to trace process

activity and PTrace to view collected information.

Objects Supporting Traces

The TRACE command is valid only for the PROCESS object. You can trace the

activities of the following Tandem FTAM processes using SCF:

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APLMGR

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Initiator

•

Responder

Tracing activity is turned on and off using the SCF TRACE command. To trace the

activity of a process during the operation of an application, you issue the SCF TRACE

command and run the application. Table 2-11

summarizes the options that you can apply

when you issue the TRACE command.

Table 2-11. TRACE Command Options

Attributes Description of Functions

RECSIZE Specifies the maximum length of data in the trace records.

COUNT Specifies the maximum number of trace records to be captured.

NOCOLL Indicates that the trace collector process will not copy trace data from

extended memory to disk while the trace is in progress.

PAGES Specifies how much space, in units of pages, is to be applied in the

extended data segment used for tracing.

SELECT Specifies the types of process information to be traced.

TO Specifies the file to which trace information is to be written.

WRAP Specifies that when the trace disk file is filled to capacity, trace data is to

wrap around to the beginning of the file and overwrite any data that is

there.

STOP Discontinues the trace currently in progress.